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New York closed home sales jump 43 percent in May

Pending sales nearly double  ALBANY, N.Y. — New York realtors sold 10,694 previously-owned homes in May, up 43.2 percent from 7,467 homes sold in the year-ago month as the housing market stayed hot. Pending sales in May went up even more, almost doubling, indicating that further large increases in closed sales are coming in in […]

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ANCA hires Cooper as new executive director

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — The Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) board of directors on July 1 announced that Elizabeth Cooper will succeed Kate Fish as executive director.  Fish has led the rural economic-development organization for 12 years. Cooper will begin work at the association on July 12, ANCA said. ANCA is an independent, nonprofit corporation

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SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Skaneateles Artisans: Creatively pivoting through COVID

SKANEATELES — During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic last holiday season, Skaneateles Artisans owner Teresa Vitale found herself in a similar position to many other retail brick-and-mortar business owners. Revenue was waning due to a lack of customers who were appropriately social distancing at home and either reducing their purchasing or relying on e-commerce

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Pinnacle leases more than 14,000 square feet in new DeWitt building

DeWITT, N.Y. — Pinnacle Holding Company, LLC recently signed a lease and took occupancy of 14,431 square feet of office space at a new building at 5845 Widewaters Parkway in DeWitt.  The financial-services and employee-benefits firm moved its headquarters there from its prior location in the Franklin Square area of Syracuse. Cory LaDuke, Stephen Scuderi,

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VIEWPOINT: Ask Rusty: Can I Get a Higher SS Benefit Now Because I’m Older?

Dear Rusty: I started getting Social Security (SS) at age 62 and I am now 77. Can I get a higher benefit now that I’m older?  Signed: Needy Senior  Dear Needy Senior: Probably not. When you first start collecting your Social Security retirement benefits (e.g., at age 62 or any other age) your SS benefit

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NYCC renamed Northeast College of Health Sciences

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. — New York Chiropractic College (NYCC) in Seneca Falls is now known as Northeast College of Health Sciences.  The new name — which New York State approved June 7 — was chosen to “best reflect the transforming scope” of educational opportunities offered at the college and to support the “evolving range of

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CDC awards New York nearly $69 million to address COVID-19-related health disparities

The CDC recently announced it has awarded Health Research Inc. (agent for New York State Department of Health) and the Fund for Public Health in New York (agent for NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene) more than $68.6 million to address COVID-19-related health disparities.  The funding, part of a $2.25 billion nationwmide investment, seeks to “advance

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Herkimer County announces community survey for age-friendly initiatives

HERKIMER, N,Y. — The Herkimer County Age Friendly Coalition has launched a survey to determine peoples’ needs as they age in the various Herkimer County communities.  The state awarded Herkimer County Office for the Aging and Herkimer County HealthNet $20,000 in funding from the Aging Age-Friendly Planning grant program. The survey is one of the

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Samaritan Medical Center opens new imaging center

WATERTOWN, N.Y. — Samaritan Medical Center (SMC) has opened a new community-based imaging facility inside its Health and Wellness Plaza location at 1575 Washington St. in Watertown. The imaging center’s opening is the culmination of an agreement finalized in February between Samaritan and the now closed Northern Radiology Imaging (NRI). In the agreement, Samaritan purchased

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MMRI researcher’s work gets a boost from AHA diversity-grant supplement

UTICA, N.Y. — Is there a connection between the development of heart disease and autism? That’s what researchers at the Masonic Medical Research Institute (MMRI) are working to find out. Maria Kontaridis, executive director of MMRI, Professor Gordon Moe, and colleagues are researching that question using grant funding from the American Heart Association (AHA). Now,

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